“‘Mom, I’m Trans:’ Comparing Our Coming Out Experiences to Caitlyn Jenner’s” – In last night’s premier of “I am Cait”, Jenner comes face to face with her mother for the first time post-transition. Dawn Ennis talks about the experiences many trans folk go through coming out to their parents. Obama Advocates for Gay Rights …

CN: Violence against trans women, transphobia, transmisogyny Today news was released of the apparent murder of a transgender woman named India Clarke in Hillsborough Florida. Her body was found Tuesday morning. Clarke is the 10th trans woman murdered in the US in 2015. From a personal perspective, I’m heartbroken at …

The very first person I ever met who told me they were a lesbian was a cast member of The Real L Word. We met in line for the bathroom at a vegan restaurant in San Francisco in January 2011. I was a senior and on a field trip with …

Caitlyn Jenner’s Outstanding ESPY Speech – Jenner used her platform to focus attention on transgender youth who still face violence and discrimination. Time has the video and full text of her speech. “Master Curation: How to Find Queer Hints in Art” – “A queer sensibility can be found in London’s …

Recent Comments

docjlaw { As a point of pragmatism (considering the hegemony of the norm of "private sexualities"), you are probably correct. As a queer individual, I take issue... } – Aug 02, 11:20 AM

Benny Vimes { I think there's a difference between being out and visibly queer, and displaying sexual acts. To be seen as queer our private sexual activity does... } – Aug 01, 5:24 PM

docjlaw { Nicely stated. Limits on queerness should be constrained only by consent. The question becomes how we define consent. We can certainly adopt the yes-means-yes framework,... } – Aug 01, 1:36 PM

Health and Medicine

Members of the LGBT community are disproportionately isolated from friends and family. Some of us have been rejected by our families. Many of us have been forced to move far away from the towns where we grew up in order to find more accepting communities. Much is made of LGBT …

Politics

Over on the Queereka Facebook page, someone left a couple of comments in response to Benny’s fantastic post about the “born this way” narrative. I think the issue that came up in the comments there is worth exploring in a bit more depth. Image Transcript: Eden Munday: It seems inappropriate …

Skepticism

I am a medical anthropologist. As such, I spend much of my time reading about and studying medicine as a sociocultural practice, particularly the ways that culture influences biomedical and public health practices. One of the reasons I went into medical anthropology was that I took a fantastic undergraduate Medical …

Science

I recently attended a panel discussion on why inclusive workplaces are an essential part of environmental sustainability and how to make workplaces inclusive. The material presented was interesting in its own right, but what it really got me thinking about was how infrequently these two movements (queer rights and environmentalism) …